this morning on the kron4 morning news, is this debris from the missing malaysian airlines flight 370? satellite images have officials and austria chasing the best lead they

have in the search. military planes are heading to the area right now. we know so far about this possible breakthrough in the kron4 morning news starts now. the morning i'm mark danon. whatever to the weather center with erica. good morning. >>erica: the morning. we'll see low '70's along the delta today. and '70s and the livermore preach your 7 day around the bay forecast highlights the cool down that on the way. keep the mind today is going to be the first day of spring. and in temperatures start to cool. definitely something you don't think of but we will keep the sunshine around. by next week monday will see temperatures in the upper 70's but then looking for the potential for some showers as we head into tuesday or wednesday. more details on that coming up in

just a minute. right now taking a look at traffic around the area. if you're heading over to the bay bridge this morning check the shot out very few cars on the road right now. at the very light are off. as i mentioned and we did have a stalled just passed high- rise for it looks like all lanes aren't clear now. taking a live look at the richmond san rafael bridge. good to go. just a couple of cars and to that westbound trip making it into marin county preach >>: the latest on our developing news for the missing a malaysian airlines flight to 370. austrian officials said the satellite images taken three days ago show objects spotted in the indian ocean that could be pieces from an airplane. one of the damages is about 80 ft. in size. a malaysian official says the sightings are credible but not confirmed. for military search plans are heading to be site to

search the area. melissa renee has the latest. >>: tony abbott says they're looking into objects found slot floated off the coast of australia. >>: the australian safety authority has received information based on satellite imagery of objects person possibly related to the search. following a specialist >>: austrian officials believe one of the objects as close to 79 ft. in size. >>: it is probably the best lead we have right now but we need to get their find them see them assess them to know whether or not it's a really meaningful or not. >>: authority's are cautious. the malaysian military says it will take time to verify. more than 60 ships and 50 aircraft have been on the hunt for the missing plane covering a

search area of nearly 3 million square miles. >>: i'm melissa renee reporting for it >>: to australia prime minister tony avocets they're looking into objects found floating off the coast of australia. it here map showing the area we're talking about. malaysia airlines flight 370 took off from kuala lum pur and headed north. but the searches in the southern indian ocean for it if you can see how far away it is from the last point of contact. austrian officials said while weather conditions in the current search area are moderate poor visibility could hurt their efforts. austrian search terms that's

just teams have been at the forefront of the hunt for the missing plane. this is reason video of australian air force search is over the southern indian ocean for the announcement of the objects in a satellite images is the most credible lead officials said they have in the massive search that is now in its 13th day. previous reports of debris found in the sea have not turned out to be related to the jets. here's another look at the planned search area 3 its 1400 to 6,000 mi. away from perth, austria. stay with kron4's we continue to cover the missing a malaysian airlines flight 373 log on to our web site kron4 dot com for the latest information out of austria on the new findings. as well as pictures of some of the passengers. you can also learn about the seven lead leading theories of what led to the flight to this apparent three the latest also be found by checking out our facebook page in twitter feet.

friends, family and communities and in a casino and napa counties are mourning the death of a sheriff's deputy killed in a shootout. authorities say it meant a single county deputy ricky del florentino was shopped around noon yesterday in the cleone area just north of fort bragg. was a 26 year veteran of law enforcement. this is the man that is a shot del fiorentino. ricardo antonio chaney. was wanted in connection with several earlier crimes tracked down after an hour's long manhunt reportedlyshootout. deputy del fiorentino a star

wrestler and football player and now high-school in the early '80s. he was inducted into the napa high athletic collophane in 1998. ricky del fiorentino was 40 years old. he is survived by his sister, wife and children. in coming up on the kron4 morning news, is a local slaughterhouse at the center of a huge meat recalled not possibly linked to one of the nation's biggest fast- food chain's three see if you were serve the questionable beef. and a prostitution crack down. police turn up the heat of suspected johnson splashing their faces all over the internet. --johns. and in other bay area about one are the second in two days. how much we want where he bought his ticket. that's just how much he wants. -another lotto winner in two days.

welcome back to the kron4 morning news as were following the latest affirmation of the missing malaysian airlines flight that disappeared 13 days ago to object spotted by satellite over the southern indian ocean. one of the two objects spot is about 80 ft. in size close to the size of an airplane wing. for military search plans are headed to the area to determine whether those objects are from of the boeing 777 that disappeared march 8th while on its way from malaysia to beijing. officials said the act expect up by satellite are about 1,500 mi. from--15perth,

australia. brig. general jeffrey sinclair who admitted breaking military lagering improper relationships with three subordinates could be sentenced today. both sides will finish closing arguments this morning. sinclair faces a maximum of more than 20 years in prison and dismissal from the army. bit president barack obama is arguing that women need better education opportunities as he raises political money in florida today. he will focus on women's economic issues in higher education during a visit to orlando valencia college. tonight the president plans to raise money for democrats to fund raisers in miami. the visit is kickoff for a working

family summit the president has planned for this summer with events in san francisco, new york and chicago. >>erica: you will need a jacket today. these are deep in your morning lows. by 3 this afternoon up we will make way for sunshine and high clouds. temperatures pretty similar to yesterday. at least for the inland spots. gorgeous weather for the first day of spring. daly city 64. i think it'll be a little cooler today thanks to the sea breeze. 72 degrees. by and o'clock tonight expect pretty calm conditions partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the '50s. satellite and radar shows a high clouds streaming into the bay area right now but cloud cover actually keeping us insulated. pretty nice weather for the next couple of days for it looks like it's going to be pretty,

pretty pleasant. as if it agrees warmer than where we should be. monday looking to be pretty warm. we could see highs in the upper '70's and are going to cool things back down as we it this way for storms to approach. looks like we will need around brown was as we head into tuesday and wednesday. more details on that coming up momentarily. right now checking the road to the handful of caught clouds year. drive time holding steady at 11 minutes. leaving the foot of the maze heading toward fremont street this morning. san mateo bridge is problem free. we did have a stock earlier this morning. drive time running at 12 to 30 minutes. the rich and san rafael bridge and very good shape. as we take it over to our traffic maps. across town freeways look good in san francisco. your drive time 23 minutes out of

nevada and to san francisco. >>: kron4 has obtained documents which link the petaluma slaughterhouse currently under criminal investigation to meet at a major fast-food chain. kron4's maureen kelly reports on the major customer identified by the manager of the slaughterhouse. >>: acclaim was made by the member of the slaughterhouse management. kron4 news of candy letter addressed to the ucsf from rancho feeding corp. manager that states that their biggest customer was the popular nationwide chain jack in the box. i spoke to a food safety expert who helps overhaul jack in the box safety procedures. he believes of rancho beef was widely distributed but if it did make it into jack in the box burgers he says the public would have still been protected.

>>: assuming that they did i'm going to tell you that jack in the box would have made shore of that beef was then there that the products were safe >>: jack and the box to not respond to our questions that none of these products are ever released to go to restaurants or into other food products until all their samples are a doctorate >>: so far no one has reported for many illnesses of be recalled from the u.s. the hague which covers an entire year of peace. the full safety expert i talked to said fast-food restaurants keep body month supply of frozen hamburger meat at the ready so he thinks would ever hasn't already been recalled was most likely either end. maureen kelly kron4 knows. >>: look strikes again of the bay area. lottery

officials said its power over all ticket matching five of five numbers will sold in hayward. the winning ticket was bought as a 711 on harder and soto roads. here are the numbers again from last night's power ball drawing 32, 19, 23, 43 and power ball 14. no one won the big jackpot but the winning ticket from a word is worth nearly $1.2 million. the next big jackpot is $96 million. just the day before, a bay area mega millions winner was announced. if the ticket purchased in san brown also with five of the winning numbers. meantime we are learning more about the bay area mega millions clear who is nearly $2 million richer. he won part of the $440 million jackpot with a ticket he bought at huntington liquor. we all know his name but the

store owner says he knows who it is. >>: i'm happy and i'm excited. he's one of my regular customers and i'm blessed a that he 13 i'm very happy for him. the store will collect $10,000 for selling that the law ticket. the n.c.a.a. tournament may have officially started on tuesday but this morning is when the real menace begins. 32 teams, half of the field will take to the court today in 16 games spread across the country. so grab your bracketing get ready for a whole lot of college basketball. if today's action begins at 9:00 a.m. with 11th seeded dates and taking on a six seed ohio state. and it ends this evening at 7:00 p.m. with 13 seat new mexico state taken all sorts see san diego state. --seed. kron4's adopted team cal p oly had a strong showing in

their first tournament game. after an improbable run through their conference tournament and a first bid and the school's history if the mustangs at it today to know how to face texas southern. cal poly came out ready to play critic committing only one turnover in the first half while building a 12 point lead. chris eversley scored 19 points and the mustangs won their first n.c.a.a. tournament game 81-69. at 13-19 cal poly has the worst record of any tournament team of 59 years. they now move on to face the team with the best top seeded whita state 34-0 in the second round salus on friday. also on sale on friday #10 seed stanford

will open their tournament against new mexico. the cable to off a 10:30 p.m.- justin thirty a of tomorrow for it as 40 and 90 --as for the nit, it was a mixed bag for the bay area today. lsu beat usf 71-63. and cal advanced with a 77-64 win over utah valley. the bears host arkansas in the second round on monday. we want to remind you this sunday night at 9 will preview the upcoming a's and kron4 sports local special hosted by sports director gary radnich. everything you need to know about the two- time defending the a.l. west champs. if heading into the upcoming season. that's sunday at 9 after the 8:00

come back to the kron4 morning news. the latest developments in the search for the missing malaysian airlines flight 313 days have passed with no side of the plane. now researchers have found every floating in the indiana-indian ocean. hear those images. satellites have been wrong before about the missing flights and australian authority's are warning that these pictures to could end up and wild goose chase but malaysian transportation minister is hopeful. >>: every lead is a hope. we want to verify 3 that we want to confirm. >>: all authorities are saying is that this is the best lead they have so far. search efforts have intensified. no previous reports of debris out the

flight the vanishing over southeast asia on march 8th. for the families of the 239 people on board the 13 days have been agony. loved ones have demand answers from the malaysian government. they stormed the news conferences and threatened hunger strikes for it with our continuing coverage stay with kron4 for the latest findings. a log on to our web site kron4 dot com for the latest information out of australia on the new findings as well as pictures of some of the passengers. you could also learn about the seven leading theories of what led to the flight to this apparent rift the lettuce can also be found by checking out our facebook page and twitter feet 3 let's head over to the weather center for an update on our weather permitted >>erica: stats for temperatures, because of the cloud cover we're running a

little warmer on this first day of spring agreed it is a spring just yet but it does once we get there we will see a very nice afternoon with partly cloudy skies and looks like temperatures just a touch cooler if it what we saw yesterday. no be surprised if your left and the low 60s a little closer to the calls line 3 here's the breakdown of your afternoon highs for today. but it was a 74 for sunnyvale. plenty of mid-70s from los gatos and evergreen for it again temperatures still about six to eight degrees cooler than where they should be. it's part today with a high of 73. partly cloudy conditions 69 in berkeley. at los '70s expected and in napa. beautiful weather sticks around. i think we're going to cool things down as we head into the weekend but still temperatures are trending above the seasonal average. really not into next week got to look at the possibility for some rain.

this doesn't look like a huge system. only looking at a 20 percent chance. we'll see an increasing cloud cover a drop in temperatures and perhaps a few raindrops. that is something we will continue to monitor. as for traffic around the bay area were in great shape. about missing a few more cars lined up here at the bay bridge toll plaza, still live very easy ride. here at the san mateo bridge drive time holding steady at 12 to 13 minutes. and for those of note heading to the san mateo bridge. but for chris darden to see more traffic make the that was bound trip into marin county. >>mark: police us >>: tel are looking for a man who allegedly tied up a woman inside her home is over atm card. kron4's will tran is live at the same with the latest. well?

>>will: amazingly this woman was not injured but she accidentally came across the suspect because she came home in the middle of a day on monday. if this could push a the picture of the suspect to they are looking for. this is a picture taken of him at an atm. this is surveillance picture and you can see his face is covered up. he has a beanie. what happened is on monday he cantar, a few miles from this location burglarizes. she comes home stumbled across him. she gets tied up for 24 hours up through the text are atm and obviously her pen as well. squeeze the location for the next 24 hours users are atm card proved she was not injured. she was able to free herself call the police department. they took her to the hospital got hurt check out rig looks like her injuries would seem minor are consistent with someone who was tied up for that period. obviously her name is not being released. we know she's a 66 year-old woman treat this as rattled the neighborhood prepares

coming up at 5:00 we will hear from nervous residents. also hear from the police department as the morning lows of three >>: thanks for that update. tensions arising as city college of san francisco ocean campus and students say they are planning a vigil against what they say is police brutality. the school has said it will be closing the call this afternoon ahead of the demonstration. >>: he acted in self- defense. that's what prosecutors say the evidence shows in the case against a homeless man accused in a fatal stabbing of a teenager in campbell. 24 year-old clyde =--tod tharp was

released. the district attorney's office of the declining to bring charges against him. he was arrested after stabbing 16 year-old ivan vazquez. police say far clit steered for his life--tharp officers are worried about retaliation against todd tharp after

finding grinning graffiti tags in the same south bay park. they have helped tharp find state house and out of the area and are now investigating whether the assault on him was gang- related. a major take down in the fight against gangs in san jose. police arrested two key members of the sur santos pride street gang an affiliate of the notorious sureno gang. the arrests were part of an extensive operation by the fbi santa clara county violent gang task force. an fbi official says the arrest coupled with the arrest of 25 others in january will still able to the day organized asian but some say there's more work to be done. you have an update on weather

time for the kron4 tech reporter with dave slate.

>>: good morning i met g d c one of the world's largest video games conferences running this week in san francisco. i'm going to give you a look at the future of gaming. everywhere i looked at this video game show people were wearing at crazy looking head gear. it's hard to believe but the new gaming technology getting the most of us at this year's ddc is something we first heard about in the '90s. >>: there the next big thing. they never broke through because technology wasn't ready. that's all changing now. you put this headset on and you are in a new world. virtual reality it is the future of gaming. taking the gamer and putting them inside the game. >>: you're walking or running a very immersive. your transported to a different place. it's incredibly impressive experience. >>: and it's not as head gear that immerses you. this system the virtuous, and it comes with a direction no

treadmill that allows gamers to rot walk jump and 360 degree weather. that's just 360 degree range. >>: it's an exercise. your burning calories why you're having some fun. but i try out the oculus with virtual reality headset which seems to be the most popular. it was amazing. i completely forgot i was a public. i was fully immersed in the game. gabe slate kron4 news that coming up on the kron4 morning news a middle

line welcome back to the kron4 morning news 3 are big story this morning austrian officials said two large objects in the indian ocean that were picked up on satellite photos three days

ago could possibly be from the malaysian airlines flight that disappeared 13 days ago. but they say they won't know for sure until they get a better look. for military search plans are heading to the area. that's more than 1,500 mi. of perth, australia. happening today details on the planned closure of two runways at sfo and how it will affect runway is that judge traveler's-tree performance a they want to make improvements. the airport has no working on the project since 2008 and has already completed it work. and mayor ed lee former secretary of state george shultz and former mayor willie brown will perform a

host a public round baking dish as ground-breaking ceremony immemorial court for the future san francisco veterans memorial. the san francisco veterans memorial site contains foils from battlefields around the world where americans have fought for their country. the new memorial will feature a series of reflections pools with a walkway floating above the water. today's ceremony begins at noon. >>erica: thanks to a sea breeze kicking and temperatures will remain in the 60s along the coast line. oakland today to get with a high of 70 that it will system is '70s develop and the south bay. temperatures are still warmer than where they should be for this time of year. i think will see a little bit of it cool down into tomorrow. cooler conditions on tap for the weekend air rained could arrive back in the forecast.

is don't put your number was always just yet. no seat on the 7 day around the bay tuesday wednesday were looking at a 20 percent chance of showers. i don't think this will be a huge rainmaker. but really we will take what we can get around here. and set mostly cloudy conditions. a drop in temperatures. so if you like the milder weather enjoy the next couple of days. stow meantime traffic around the bay area and very good shape. if you're heading to the bay bridge check it out. it looks like the bottom really picked up. no weight at the pay gates the main lights are off and if you're heading to the san mateo bridge those taillights on the right-hand side of your screen if you're heading to the commute direction. a live look at the richmond center fell bridge. as we take it over to the traffic maps crosstown freeway is look good as an francisco. heading down to the golden gate bridge along south on no one. looks like all was

well and east bay as well for highway 24 and those of you who take highway 4 out of antioch. >>: police are trying to identify who shot a man in a fight in antioch. two shots fired in the area of west fifth and h streets yesterday morning around 11453 when they arrive they did not find any victims' but they did fine showcase and three officers were then called to a possible fight in the area and that's when they found a victim with eight gunshot wound. the victim taken to hospital with a non life-threatening injuries 3 police believe the drugs could be the cause of the fight. >>: in antioch school will not become a charter school after operated the board of trustees unanimously voted last night to deny the petition to convert the osier libby into an independent charter school. --dozier libbey. the special

meeting was packed with students and parents for against the conversion. supporters said that would allow dozier-libbey change its credit system and giving the board of directors more say over budgeting issues. those against the idea say dozier-libbey is already successful and doesn't need change. in it was a scary after no for middle school students who said they were attacked across the street from their school and san leandro. police say it happened yesterday morning outside a shell gas station on the bancroft avenue near bancroft a middle school. police say when this explained how the man grabbed at least once stood and attempted to kiss the child. on a parent tells kron4's she was stunned to learn what happened. >>: they did this plot while

sitting across the street on the skids. and it's a problem. san leandro police said the man walked into the police station a few hours later and confessed to the crime. in some neighborhoods in the oakland hills have seen a drop in crime after hiring private security guards. the private patrols have been hired areas like the lore rock creek and--lower rockridge and oakmoor area street according to crime mapping.com, the oak moor neighborhood had only three incidents in the last 30 days compared to nine incidents in the same time span last year and one security guard says he has seen less crime since he started last month. local police and many city council members believe it's too early to know if the

private security companies are working for it because they say it could be the crime is spilling into the surrounding areas. temperatures chile in the 40's around the bay. more on

welcome back to the kron4 morning news. nearly $760 million in unclaimed tax refunds will soon become the property of the u.s. government if taxpayers don't collect it. the irs says the money belongs to about 918,000 taxpayers if it was to have filed their 2010 tax returns. if you're among that group you must file your 2010 return by april 15th in order to

collect your refund. otherwise the irs gets to keep it. heading into the 5:00 hour we have some new pictures we wanted to show you. sony has unveiled its new virtual reality headset at the game developers conference in san francisco. the headset is called the project morpheus prototype is for the p.s. 4 and has a 1080 p resolution and a 90 degree field of view. sensors built into the headset contract ahead oriented and movement. sony did not say when the product will go on sale. college students and poland now hold the world record for the largest domino chain. take a look students

from the czestochowa school of economics greeted the chain by reggie nearly 5000 books like dominoes. the previous record holder in this category arranged just over 4800 books and a chain and a literary fare in belgium last year. a new tech mystery is now unfolding in the bay area. city officials and san jose have given the thumbs-up on the plans for a new mega office site reports indicate a tech company will call the spot home. kron4's justine waldman shows us what this massive project will look like and find out what tech company might be moving and very the space has room for eight to 10,000. the tan building seven stories high will be built on top of two levels

of belowground parking. architect's rendering show us a room for tennis courts and activity centers. this i plan for aship campus and cupertino apple is on apple to move into the new mega site. i spoke to the city planner about the project today. he told me he doesn't even know what company will be moving in. but second jet will likely start by the end of the year. and the news room, justine waldman kron4 news. >>: more information coming into the kron4 morning news about the latest break in the search for the missing malaysian airline passenger jets. putting it together for your ride to now for it will have it ready for you in just a few minutes on the kron4 morning news as the search continues now 1,500 mi. southwest of perth,

australia. >>: plus fear bad guys in san jose. the latest on a major take down by bay area police and federal agents. --fewer bad guys. come back to the kron4 morning news. we reported yesterday about a charter school

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we'll get you the latest traffic and weather update in just a moment. first a lot of new information coming in overnight about the missing malaysia jet australian maritime officials say a satellite images show two objects in the indian ocean that could be from malaysia airlines flight 370. one of those is estimated to be 80-feet long. four military search planes are headed to that area right now. which is about 15-hundred miles from the southeast coast of australia. more on that new information

for you in 90 seconds. first let's catch you up on what's going on with today's forecast.erica? now more on the possible breakthrough in the search for missing malaysian airlines flight 370. it's been 13 days since the jet disappeared. we're getting new reports from australia this morning. take a look at these images. taken from an australian satellite. that australian officials say may be the missing boeing 777. one of the objects is estimated to be about 80- feet long. a malaysian official says the sightings are credible, but not confirmed. here are pictures just released of australian search crews.on four jets headed to where those satellite pictures indicate the objects are. four search planes are en route to that spot in the southern part of the indiana ocian.about 15- hundred miles from perth.which is on the southwest coast of australia. and in a briefing just moments ago. a ship from the australian

navy is also en route. the royal australian navy ship hms success is en route to the area but is some days away. the ship is well- equipped to locate any objects located and proven to be from mh370. every effort is being made to locate the objects seen in the satellite imagery. it must be stressed that these sightings, while credible, are still to be confirmed. so, they're saying the sighting is "credible but not confirmed". new information is coming in almost every minute. we'll update you on the latest developments as the kron 4 news continues this morning. police in san mateo are looking for a supsect who police say tied up a woman inside her home and stole her a-t-m card. this is a picture of the suspect that a security camera at one of the a-t-m captured. police say the women came home around noon on monday after running some errands. when she went inside, a burglar was waiting with a gun. he tied her up and held her captive over the next day. during this time, she give him her pin number to her a- t-m card and he was able to make transactions and

withdraw cash. residents in the area say nothing much happens here and are shocked something like this could happen. police want you to take a good look at this man. they say, he is armed and dangerous. and that allegedly tied up a woman inside her san mateo home, and stole her a-t-m card. officers say, he has used that card several times and could do this again.

kron-4's jeff bush is live in san mateo. and jeff -- what's new with this investigation? san mateo police say the woman came home around noon on monday after running some errands. when she went inside, a burglar was waiting with a gun. sgt. dave norris that suspect, then, restrai ned her, tied her up, held her captive while he accessed her atm card over the next day or so. so, she gave her pin number? right, he was able to get her pin number from her and use her access card and go to several atm's to make transactions to withdraw cash. the woman was able to finally get herself free on tuesday afternoonmore than 24 hours after she was tied up. police were came across this picture during their investigation. it was taken by the security camera at one of the atm's used to steal the woman's money. you can see the burglar has a dark hat on and his jacket zipped all the way up to his nose to hide his face. residents on this quiet street say nothing much happens here. they are shocked, scared and can't believe something like this could happen. it's scary. yeah, it's scary because nobody is in their house in the day and she probably had her mouth taped house in the day and she proba[ male announcer ]taped let's do this carpet

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communities in mendocino and napa counties are mourning the death of a sheriff's deputy killed in a shootout.

authorities say, mendocino county deputy ricky del fiorentino was shot around noon yesterday. in the cleone area. just north of fort bragg. he was a 26-year veteran of law enforcement. this is the man deptuties say shot del fiorentino: ricardo antonio chaney. he was wanted in connection with several earlier crimes. tracked down after an hours-long manhunt. and reportedly killed in a shootout. the drought has become a major concern across the bay area this winter. and now, fire officials are warning residents. to be ready for an early fire season.

fifty fires statewide well above the 250 fires. at this time last year. the biggest bay area threat as may be in the south bay. hill tops there are not as his areas, because recent rains hit the east bay, north bay, the dry winter conditions have forced many bay area cities to take a look at how residents will use the dwindling water supplies.

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although we are heading out a crystal clear conditions like we've been seat past couple of days to it's actually help it with our temperatures. and little warmer this morning. sanford's as collier of 55 degrees. these archer morning lows. temperatures will drop another for the graves approaching at sunrise. we have a sea breeze kicking mountain view checking in with a high of 73. i think it's going to be a typical and then yesterday and the east bay. antioch 74. temperatures mainly in the upper 60s along the east bay shoreline and the senate 70 are high and oakland. temperatures still trending between five and six degrees warmer than where we should

be for this time of year. really not much change predigested subtle dip into your friday. take in the and the weekend. it looks like sunshine sticks around. take a look at the rhodes about. >>: for the trip into marin county your problem free on the approach to the richness san rafael bridge with no delays coming to the toll plaza up from interstate 580 westbound. looking at interstate 80 and updating some drive times for you,

hercules the berkeley this morning. 12 minutes for a drive down to university avenue and an easy commute through the san ramon of vallate to 60 minutes into the dublin interchange 3580. saunter the off a mall but not as much as usual. south bay for u.s. are almost completely cleared. when no one saw the bound your drive time out of know by now is coming in at about 24 minutes for your trip south to the golden gate bridge. >>: we just are praying for them and treasure the people who are near you. we just hope they will come home. make every day count. >>: officials and austria are checking out to object spotted in a southern indian ocean that may be linked to them assimilation airlines flight 373 the objects were picked up by satellite

about 5,000 mi. southwest of% australia predict many today are showing increasing frustration at the search is dragging on. --1500 miles. >>: ha

first lady michelle bauman plans to avoid politics of focus on education of people to people contacts on her first visit to china. if mrs. obama is due to arrive in the country today with her mother and twoers of the 73y visit. her schedule includes a speech to chinese-american students at peking university on friday mrs. obama will spend the day with the chinese president's wife. no one paleontologists

have unveiled a new dinosaur and judging from its name you've got to see this thing. this is a picture of what scientists have nicknamed the chicken from hell. paleontologist made the discovery after piecing together a schedule remains from three different sites in north and south dakota. they said the bird weighed about five other towns stood about 10 ft. high and had very large hands with sharp claws. richmond police are starting a program to try and stop prostitution and the city streets. police are now posting photos of john's it also shall media for everyone to see. the last four to the arrested are eleazar ceja, francisco deleon lopez, oscar torres--

suarez, and delaney walker. officers are focusing on streets were no prostitutes search for johns. the past two weeks six females have been arrested for selling their bodies. police are also record a vehicle played numbers and telling a letter to where the car is registered to hoping that will also make john's think twice before pulling up to a prostitute. middle school students attacked outside a gas station. right across the street from their school in san leandro. police say it happened on bancroft avenue at a shell station yesterday morning. the students attend a van across the middle school. heyman bradlees lost it and attempted to kiss the child. police said the suspect walked into the police

station a few hours after the incident and confessed to committing the crime. and a virginia lawmakers to get some heat for using the term tar baby. a state senator frank ruff use the analogy at a chamber of commerce meeting to describe extending the stay part of the affordable care with federal funds. ruff, who's a republican told the virginian pilot he didn't mean any think racial bias and he meant it as a sticky situation nothing more. gov. terry mcauliffe, democrat weighed in on the controversy. all horrible commentary on of these apologize but there is no place in the debate that we are having today to be using that kind of language. the debate on whether to expand medicaid and the state has divided virginia

lawmakers free so much so that the state general assembly recently adjourned without adopting a new two- year budget. president obama today is pushing for women's rights and they need better education opportunities. he will speak to that at orlando's valencia college career right now, ford has one of the country's most competitive key gubernatorial races so the president is focusing his efforts there even though the two leading candidates are men. the president hopes women will turn out and support other candidates in november. still ahead on the kron4 morning news and new jersey man pleads guilty to stealing nearly a half- million dollars in quarters. how he managed to sneak away a hefty load coming up. and for some mysterious march now and mysterious building which tech firm is laying claim to develop land for a mac off the site. we have the latest. --mega oficfice

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>> welcome back. we are watching wall street this morning. futures trading shows all three indexes in negative this morning. the federal reserve's message about higher interest rates and stock and gold prices lower yesterday. here is a look at the numbers. the dow lost 114 points, ending the day is $16.222. the nasdaq lost 25.6 yen at 4307. the s&p 500 lost 11 in a net 1860. >> a new tack mystery is now unfolding in the bay area. san jose city officials approved a $2 million square-foot office

project which might be the largest commercial development in the city's history. planning officials say they do not know who will be moving in. amazon on, google and facebook have been mentioned. the 10 buildings, seven stories high will be built on top of two levels of belowground parking. architect's rendering is show room for tennis courts and other activities. despite plans for new spaceship campus and cupertino. money is on apple to move then to this new site. >> a former government employee in new jersey is that he did still hundreds of thousands of dollars all the quarters. authority say that he was the building inspector for ridgewood and villages so he had access to the money. >> just to put it in

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flight 370. overnight australian officials announced that they have found two large pieces of debris floating in the indian ocean and images from a satellite. we now know that five planes and two ships are headed to that area. about 1,500 mi. off the coast of australia. port visibility may make it difficult for them to find these objects. just into kron4, a transportation expert says that they may be something else. >> our experience is that there is an debris out there. some ships, for example falling overboard. and other objects of that type, have on this particular location, the size and the fact that there are a number located in the same area. and really makes it worth looking at. but i do not want to speculate about what they are until we get there and see them.

>> australian officials warn that these pictures of the field of debris floating in the war could end up in a goose chase. malaysia's transport minister is hopeful. he said earlier that he wants to get answers for the families of the passengers of the malaysian airline flight 370. >> stay with kron4 as we continue to cover the missing flight. law was our website for the latest information. we also have pictures of some of the passengers. you can also learn about the seven leading theories of what led to the slides disappearance. >> the time is 5:32 a.m.. we will now get a look at weather and traffic. >> it is not as cold this morning. the temperatures are actually in the 40's and

50's. we may see upper '30's for some of the protected valleys. it is pretty mild house i would san francisco is 53 degrees. looking at the next three days, today we will see mid '70s. take a look at friday into saturday we will have cooler conditions. i will walk you through the extended forecast and highlight your 7 day around the bay coming up. >> here is a quick commute check for your ride on interstate 580 and the commute from the east bay. the bay bridge toll plaza is light and easy and so far the only slowing as 580 westbound. there are no delays for south bay freeway is peninsula are all looking good. the westbound ride on 580 drive time is just 11 minutes. there are no major

delays yet. >> luck strikes a again in the bay area. a power ball ticket matching five of five numbers was so in hayward. the winning ticket was bought at a 711 on harder and so toll roads. that is where we find kron4 mike pelton live. >> i do not have the winning ticket. but who ever did when matched 5 of the five numbers. that will walk away with $2 million which is a nice chunk of change. you should check your ticket this morning. the winning numbers are two, 19, 23, 34, 43 and the power ball was 14. just pay attention to the first five numbers.

someone matched 5 of the numbers in mega millions. there were just shy of $2 million. last month a gas station in milpitas also sold a winning ticket. that's it is still on claims. as for the winning ticket at 711 we have calls into the california lottery officials to try to sort of numbers out but i am not sure if this is a ticket from our station but we need to rethink our strategy. >> i am never in all the office pool but she did not win again. >> more than 9000 ucsf patients have had their personal data compromise after desktop computers were stolen from a clinic. the

computers were stolen back in january from the family medicine center in lakeshore and sloped boulevard. investigators said the computers had personal and health information that included individuals names, date of birds, mailing addresses and social security numbers. the university has send out notification letters to those affected. >> and another confrontation could be in the works a city college for san francisco's ocean campus. students say they plan to have a vigil that is what they say is police brutality. the plan together in front of the hall. the scene of a clash what police last week. the school has said that they will be closing the call this afternoon ahead of the demonstrations. >> a major take down in the fight against gangs and san jose. police arrested two

key members of the sur santos pride street gang and affiliate of the notorious sureno gang. the arrests made yesterday were part of an extensive operation by the fbi's santa clara county a violent gang the task force. an fbi official says that the rest coupled with the arrest of 25 others in january will deal a blow to the gay organization. >> those who want to stamp out to gainsay that the effort now is to make sure their resources are spent to make sure that those young men do something else other than join gangs. >> coming up on kron 4 news. a high-school yearbook sensors for featuring a gay teenager. the controversy that led a civil rights group to take action. >> a local

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>> there's new information being released in the search for the malaysian airline flight that disappeared 13 days ago. two of objects have been spotted by satellite over southern indian ocean. one of the two objects spotted is about 80 ft. in size close to the size of an airplane wing. for military search planes are headed to that area to determine whether it is from the missing all boeing 777. meanwhile, families of the 239 people on board flight 370 have stormed new is conferences and threaten humber strikes demanding

answers from the malaysian government. >> it is want to be cooler for the first week of spring. we saw temperatures in the '80s when it was winter. now we're in the spring town we're starting to cool down. you are still in the 40's for santa rosa and 52 degrees for antioch. it is warmer this morning thanks to the cloud cover but as we head into afternoon we will have plenty of 70's. campbell will have a high of 75 and 74 for santa clara. a mix bag of '60s and '70s. mostly sunny skies and 72 degrees for fairfield. lows to mid 60's for the coast thanks to the return of the sea breeze. a again, it is " to be pretty mild pretty

similar conditions for tomorrow and again there are no fireworks. we may see rain drops in next week in fact by next tuesday and wednesday we may have a 20% chance. the time is 5:47 a.m.. >> i am smiling because we are still monitoring a hot spot free ride. at the bay bridge toll plaza things are starting to back up for this westbound ride especially in the left-hand cash lanes. i would say that we're probably within eight to 10 minutes of sing the middle elidesee the mer seeg lights. >> over at the golden gate bridge is mold for 1 01 southbound and 580 westbound

into marin county we are problem free at the toll plaza. the east shore freeway ride, less of that the drive time 12 minutes from hercules to berkeley. it is still an easy trip to san ramon, 19 minutes and west 580 is getting heavy especially from livermore over to the dublin interchange. it is 14 minutes. a little slowing on 1 01 northbound direction with no delays. the moorland committed still looking great. it will be a while before we see a delay between the bottle and the golden gate bridge. >> a petaluma slaughterhouse is at the center of a major beef recall that has now been linked to products to major fast-food chain jack in the box. kron4 received a letter addressed to the usda from a rancho feeding corp.

manager it stays that their biggest customer was the jack in the box. the letter was from 2013. the same year covered by the recall. a food and safety expert we spoke with says that if the recalled meet did make it to the restrooms of burgers, the public was still have been protected. >> these products were safe at the time. >> jack in the box and not respond to our questions so far no one has reported any illnesses from me to recall by the usda. >> an antioch school is not going to become a charter school after all. the board of trustees unanimously voted last night to deny the petition to convert dozer- libby into an independent charter school. the special meeting was packed with

students and parents. supporters say that would allow dozer-libby to change its rating system and given new board of directors more say over the budget issues. those against the idea say that it is already successful and it does not need to change. >> university of san francisco hosting isu tigers for their opening round game of the nit and lsu was up early. in the first quarter and less use jarell martin flights and for the dunk. he would finish the game with 16 points. the final score was 71-63 ellis you. >> also in the nit action.

cal advanced with a 77-64 win over utah valley. the bears will host arkansas on monday in the second round. >> kron4 adopted team cal poly had a strong showing in their first tournament game. after an improbable run to their conference tournament, and the first bid in the school's history, the mustangs had to head its a dayton, ohio to face texas southern. cal poly came out ready to play. committing one turnover in the first half while building a 12 point lead. they now moved on to face the team with the best top-seeded. in st. louis on friday at no. 10

seed staffer will open their tournament against new mexico. that game will tip off the 10:30 a.m. tomorrow morning. >> are you really going to watch the game? >> yes. >> and especially nerve wracking game for one coach in the ncaa first four tournament. i will coach frank mccaffery was an hour yesterday morning before his son, who was having surgery to remove remove it thyroid tumor. the coach then flew out to dayton, ohio for the gang between iowa and tennessee. most of the game he was visibly frustrated. tennessee won in overtime. today is a son's 14th birthday. and >> we'll have more coming up

as we continue. >> and we want to remind you about the sunday night special at 9:00 p.m.. we will preview the upcoming oakland a's season and a kron4 sports breaks special with gary radnich.

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>> had into the 6:00 hour we have new video that we want to show you. a dump truck carrying stocks slipped over on a dell or highway. the crash happened just before 10:00 a.m. yesterday. investigators believe that the driver hit the media in an over corrected, calls in the low sought to shift. the driver was trapped in the

truck for about two hours before he was freed. >> south carolina's corrections department is promising penalties for inmates who recorded a rap video and data posted on line. the six minute video turned up this week. investigators have identified eight inmates who were involved in the video. if they are facing new disciplinary measures. prison officials are less concerned with the video that they are that the inmates had a cell phone. this could be used by prison inmates to set up escapes', drug deals or to carry out threats to witnesses on the outside. >> check out this accident in brooklyn. a s uv crashed through a fence and landed on top of a subway car. no one in the subway car was injured the driver was not either. police said that he fled the scene on foot. >> coming up the next hour.

our top story this morning is the missing malaysia flight. we have the latest developments and we will hear from frustrated family members. >> it is 25 years later but we are still feeling the effects of the exxon oil spill. how people in alaska are still struggling. >> we told sure about and app to get rid of parking tickets in the city. now there is a new one targeted just for those tickets from street sweepers. whatoes at first spooul tte le?

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>> now at 6. military planes are in the air today working on a new lead that may be connected to the missing malaysian airlines flight. >> and getting brutalizeis not e was not enough. we will tell you what else happened. >> thank you for joining us on this